Factors affecting occupational black carbon exposure in enclosed railway stations
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Other documents of the author: Delgado-Saborit, Juana Maria; Lim, Shanon; Hickman, Alice; Baker, Christopher; Barratt, Benjamin; Cai, Xiaoming; Font, Anna; Heal, Mathew; Lin, Chun; Thornes, John Edward; Woods, Michael; Green, David
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Factors affecting occupational black carbon exposure in enclosed railway stationsAuthor (s)
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2022-08-02Publisher
Elsevier Ltd.ISSN
1352-2310Bibliographic citation
Delgado-Saborit, J. M., Lim, S., Hickman, A., Baker, C., Barratt, B., Cai, X., Font, A., ... & Green, D. (2022). Factors affecting occupational black carbon exposure in enclosed railway stations. Atmospheric Environment, 289Type
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Many rail services around the world continue to use diesel as the primary fuel source and enclosed railway stations have been identified as a possible hotspot for exposure to harmful diesel exhaust exposures. Little ... [+]
Many rail services around the world continue to use diesel as the primary fuel source and enclosed railway stations have been identified as a possible hotspot for exposure to harmful diesel exhaust exposures. Little is known about the occupational exposure to air pollution for railway station workers due to their mobility around the station and variations in station design. A detailed understanding of the concentration of black carbon (BC), a diesel exhaust tracer, inside railway stations and the factors driving occupational exposures is required to minimize occupational exposure. Real-time personal exposure to BC was measured during 60 work-shifts encompassing different roles at three large enclosed railway stations of different design in London, Birmingham and Edinburgh (UK). Sampling was conducted by the train station workers over a period of 27 days between January 2017 to October 2018. Worker shift-mean BC exposures ranged 0.6–20.8 μg m−3 but 1-min peak exposures reached 773 μg m−3, with train dispatchers experiencing the highest BC exposures. Station design, job role, and frequency of diesel trains were the main drivers of occupational BC exposure. Elevated exposures for some station workers indicate that mitigation measures to reduce their exposure should be implemented to lower the risk of occupational health impacts. These could include improving ventilation and reducing engine emissions. [-]
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Atmospheric Environment, Vol. 289 (November 2022)Funder Name
RSSB | School of Engineering at the University of Birmingham | National Institute for Health Research: Health Protection Research Unit (NIHR HPRU) | Generalitat Valenciana
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T1222 | CIDEGENT/2019/064
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EPSRC Scholarship | Talented Researcher Support Programme - Plan GenT
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